On my wish list is a model of the TDRS satellite scheduled to launch this coming August. I've done what research I think I'm going to have to be happy with and was lucky enough to find a 3D model in Blender that I can use as a reference. The model is fairly accurate so I'm doing that all to familiar "dance at the end of the diving board" as I decide whether I have enough time to finish or whether I should just shelve it for now.
A big concern is the structure of struts that come off the spacecraft bus and two dish antennas. yes, this artist's depiction is accurate for the satellite in-flight. I'd like to be able to design these struts so that they could be made of paper. But so far, as a novice, I've sometimes struggled with the method of "perpendicular rolling a rectangle into a tube" and sometimes just abandoned it for an aluminum wire/tube or plastic rod.
I know that more advanced models, like the Uhu's LEM have LOTS of paper struts, but I've not seen how these were created, presented, or built. I've considered suggesting a version of the "rolled newspaper" method where you diagonally roll thin paper (I've not yet tried this) to the desired diameter and then cut lengths to fit the model.
Okay a search of the forum has left me without references, and a search on google and youtube only teach me how to roll a better joint. Ugh -Internet. Is there a better reference out there?
A big concern is the structure of struts that come off the spacecraft bus and two dish antennas. yes, this artist's depiction is accurate for the satellite in-flight. I'd like to be able to design these struts so that they could be made of paper. But so far, as a novice, I've sometimes struggled with the method of "perpendicular rolling a rectangle into a tube" and sometimes just abandoned it for an aluminum wire/tube or plastic rod.
I know that more advanced models, like the Uhu's LEM have LOTS of paper struts, but I've not seen how these were created, presented, or built. I've considered suggesting a version of the "rolled newspaper" method where you diagonally roll thin paper (I've not yet tried this) to the desired diameter and then cut lengths to fit the model.
Okay a search of the forum has left me without references, and a search on google and youtube only teach me how to roll a better joint. Ugh -Internet. Is there a better reference out there?
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